[Peace-discuss] Presbyterian General Assembly: Goodbye to the Old Rules

[David Green]

http://markbraverman.org/2010/07/report-from-the-presbyterian-general-assembly-part-2-the-jewish-response/


Is there a future for a Presbyterian-Jewish “partnership?” Will the wide range 
of American Jewish organizations listed in the JCPA letter follow the lead of 
the Wiesenthal Center and continue to adopt an “us and them” attitude? Will they 
continue to fight the growing movement, at the grassroots and at the highest 
levels, to bring an end to the illegitimate and destructive policies of Israel? 
If the Presbyterians are to have true partners in their pursuit of social 
justice, perhaps they can be found among  the 30 American rabbis who wrote to 
Judge Richard Goldstone when he was blocked from attending a family Bar Mitzvah 
in South Africa. Or perhaps the church can be joined by by the Jewish writers 
and artists who brought out the public letter to protest the San Francisco 
Jewish Federation’s attempt to establish an “anti-Israel” blacklist, or by the 
100+ Jerusalem Jews who wrote in outrage to Eli Wiesel when he claimed Jerusalem 
exclusively for the Jewish people. (For links to these documents, go to “Signs 
of Hope from the Jewish community.”) Perhaps the denomination could reach out to 
those Jewish Israelis who, in a cry for help to save them from their own 
government’s policies, are calling on the world to support the movement for 
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (LA Times, August 20, 2009, “Boycott Israel”).


      
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